nitecheck wrote:No shower... ............I am still working on this.... I'm VERY relaxed with securing bikes & multi parking motorbikes....but getting basic facilities is a real chore.... who would think this is 2009 & we that have climate crisis, dependency on oil, a recession & it's "trendy" to be "green" .......PLUS half a dozen car spots that a vacant each day!

My work shower is currently under construction and hopefully I'll get to use it on Tuesday morning .

Doc63 wrote:Our facilities are fantastic. We have a huge bike cage in the underground car park, plenty of hot showers & lockers. We seem to be spoilt!!!

x 2! I work in a complex that spreads throough 3 buildings, 2 of which share a common car park with a big bike cage and showers, and the third has another bike cage and set of showers. The only downside is that my commute is now 30 minutes longer each direction since the relocation.

Gday, i work at a hospital so fresh towls ever day shower and lockers - all in security coded bathroom and as there are about 10 - 15 male nurses i get a choice of 9 lockers bike storage is the only issue.... outside in tropical north queensland (sunshine 300 days a year and pissing down with rain the other 65) and a high school of 1200 kids about 5 mins walk away, no bikes have ever been stolen but there is always a first ..... so i lock my bike under the emergency stairs, have to crab walk to put it there but its dry, safe and no one goes there so no one knows about it -- so dont tell anybody since i have told the girls at work about the showers i have got 5 regulars to start riding and now there is a regular 'how was your commute' session

Lucky lucky lucky, no facilities, shower every morning before the ride, wear bike gear on the road, towel down with micro fiber and keep a change of clothes at work, take fresh shirt every day, shower in a bottle/can helps. My poor Cinelli sits outside all day double D locked to a heavy duty ralling. Have fun in the shower, remember dont pick up the soapBig jonny

My bike sits next to my desk amongst a gaggle of motorbikes that also sit next to my desk. I have access to a shower which is always clean!?! Its in the mechanics area but no-one apart from me uses it. I keep a change of clothes at work to enable me to travel light.............

All I have to do is pick my form of transport each night, pushie, co. motorbike or co. car........... lucky me lol!!!

justD wrote:I've been wondering about this. I'm in Newcastle now but may want to move to Sydney at some point.

I'm a computer programmer and generally my skills are in fair demand, but how do you say "I will only consider job offers from companies with good shower/cycle facilities"?

The company I'm with now have a shower and are fairly relaxed about parking our bikes inside the office. Thought I may have to retire with them as I'm not giving up commuting ever!

Last time I was interviewing it was a question I asked during the interview. If they don't have facilities, then you don't take the job. I think saying "I won't consider offers unless you have bike facilities" is probably a bad thing to say directly though

Someone at my work was told he could not keep his bike in this office because it is a fire hazard. I was a bit surprised because he keeps it out of the way and it would not block his exit in case of fire. They told him that if there was a fire it would block exiting employees in the stairwell if he carried it down the stairs

casual_cyclist wrote:Someone at my work was told he could not keep his bike in this office because it is a fire hazard. I was a bit surprised because he keeps it out of the way and it would not block his exit in case of fire. They told him that if there was a fire it would block exiting employees in the stairwell if he carried it down the stairs

So that bit about not stopping to collect personal possesions doesn't apply to bikes?!

casual_cyclist wrote:Someone at my work was told he could not keep his bike in this office because it is a fire hazard. I was a bit surprised because he keeps it out of the way and it would not block his exit in case of fire. They told him that if there was a fire it would block exiting employees in the stairwell if he carried it down the stairs

So that bit about not stopping to collect personal possesions doesn't apply to bikes?!

Not if it is a ~20 year old pub bike equivalent that won't fit down the stairwell in a fire emergency I asked the guy and he said in a fire, that bike is the last thing he would be thinking of. On the other hand if it was worth a couple of thousand, then maybe... let me see... bike - life - bike - life...

casual_cyclist wrote: Not if it is a ~20 year old pub bike equivalent that won't fit down the stairwell in a fire emergency I asked the guy and he said in a fire, that bike is the last thing he would be thinking of. On the other hand if it was worth a couple of thousand, then maybe... let me see... bike - life - bike - life...

No contest besides the obvious - good reason to upgrade.

Re: topic, our facilities are pretty new, only half a dozen people are using it regularly so I feel like a kid in a candy store. The cage is next to the carpark. Showers and lockers are the definite plus although they could be bigger and wider though. Also one toilet in the changing room and for us females that's going to be a foreseeable challenge when more people use it...

When I started at the Department of Housing there was a single shower that had been added to the ground floor men's staff dunny. It had a reversible sign pinned to the door saying "Female inside". There were only about three or four riders back then and only myself and another who did thru winter.

Now we have six showers divided evenly by gender. We also have a large room that accommodates around 25 bikes for those who do not take them to their office. It is all lockable.

But the best is we have 70 lockers, mostly lockable. That represents around 1 for every 5 staff. There are three fat lockers for community use for those without lockers.

On what it cost - The room itself is a convenient outbuilding that has limited options for use due to it's heritage status. So other than the cost of fitting out some modern showers, the cost would have been modest - Most of the lockers are scrounged or picked up second hand.

I know about fifteen who ride all year around, and there would be many participants in our corporate wellness program as well. Despite the huge numbe of lockers (I manage these) there is a constant need to reallocate as we have much demand all year around from cyclists, joggers and exercisers and this has balooned out only in the three or four years since it was all put together.

I hope this demonstrates to building owners and employers that there is genuine and persistent demand.

I dont ride to work due to other reasons (road surface/sign on/off times,locations etc) but at our Port depot the office staff have a bike rack {bring your own lock style} they have personal lockers and male and female toilet and showers.Over at Kooragang,even though the company just expanded they never put up anything for bike riders ,therory is expansion is tempory till we move to Greta,even further away and opposite direction to where most people live but the Island does have showers ,Terminal workers have 4 showers in a building and 1 toilet,drivers have 2 showers and 2 toilets in a demountable humpy.Females have their own locked up shower/toilet

One of my good colleagues at work who is in the building management section came up to me this morning looking very worried. He asked where I had parked my bike. I said in the bike cage. He said, that was good because someone had noticed a shifty-looking, trench coat-wearing character with a bolt cutter fiddling around with someone's bike just outside the front of the building. By the time security arrived, the bike was gone.

Just another episode to make me super-paranoid about the security for my bike. Some thoughts: why did the bike owner not park it in the bike cage (probably not as convenient because s/he has to go AROUND to the back of the block), it's going to be a long walk home for said owner, and if you see someone wearing a trenchcoat and it looks as if it's too bulky for his person (and no it's not because he's glad to see you), he's probably got a hidden boltcutter.

i work in the Risk department in a fire station and i have access to 3 different showers areas, 3 separate areas to store my bike, a gym, yoga, massage (but i need to pay), we have a cycling club and cycling jersey but i havent joined the club or a jersey.

thomashouseman wrote:I work at Homebush and we have a shared bike cage and one shower on each floor (have access to 4 floors).Am I crazy in wanting a workstand/air compressor in the bike cage area?

I just go a cheap track pump and stuck a note on it saying it was there for all to use, and I just leave it in our lockable bike cage. We'll see how long it remains there!

Oh, we have 20 showers (10 Male + 10 Female), approx 200 lockers (for day use only, you have to hand over your security pass to get a key), plus bike racks for approx 230 bikes. We also have one disabled shower on each floor in the building (19 floors), but have been told "not to be used unless you are disabled". Methinks building management just doesn't want to clean them, since we currently have no disabled staff using them (most of use the disabled to change into our gear before going home, since it avoids having to go down 10 floors to use the change rooms, then come back up to drop off clothes, then go down again to get the bike)

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